Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Partnerships)

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role As the Manager of the International Partnerships, Applied AI, Solutions Architect team at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by enabling the deployment of Anthropic's products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, and API) through our Global and Regional System Integrators (GSIs/RSIs), cloud partners (AWS and GCP), and strategic technology partners across international markets. Based in London, you will lead and grow a team of Partner Solutions Architects, establishing Anthropic's technical partner ecosystem across EMEA and beyond. You'll be responsible for leading growing the International Partnerships Applied AI team, establishing processes and best practices for partner-led pre-sales engagements, helping each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and representing Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important international partnerships. In collaboration with the Sales, Partnerships, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll help partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their practices, solutions, and customer engagements. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to accelerate indirect revenue, enable partner AI practices, and execute on long-term international GTM strategy, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards. Responsibilities Team Leadership Development: Manage and mentor a team of Applied AI, Partner Solutions Architects, providing both technical guidance and career development. Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output Strategic Technical Partnership: Serve as the senior technical thought partner to the Anthropic international GTM partnerships team, providing technical expertise to better understand the partner landscape, driving key strategic programs, and identifying opportunities to deepen partner technical capabilities across international markets Partner Ecosystem Enablement: Embed your team with GSI and cloud partner technical teams to enable their AI practices, support troubleshooting, evangelize Anthropic in their developer communities, and serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues Joint Solution Development: Lead your team in collaborating with partners to identify high-value industry-specific GenAI applications, develop joint solutions, and codify reference architectures / best practices to accelerate time to deployment across international markets Customer Deal Support: Own the technical portions of partner-led pre-sales engagements, ensuring your team intervenes directly to unblock strategic customer deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep technical expertise and solution architecture guidance Partner Ecosystem Events: Represent Anthropic at international partner events such as GSI customer workshops, AWS summits, and industry conferences. Lead or support partner-specific developer events, hackathons, and technical enablement sessions Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive collaboration from cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes. Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to co-build international partner strategies Product Feedback: Validate and gather feedback on Anthropic's products and offerings, especially as they relate to international partner use cases and deployment patterns, and deliver this feedback to relevant Anthropic te ... (truncated, view full listing at source)